It's my understanding that, with HR, getting an entity by key is only
strongly consistent within a transaction.

If this is wrong, then a significant portion of my own task handling
code may need revisiting...

Perhaps someone who knows more could clarify this.

Tom.

On 21 March 2011 22:10, Simon Knott <knott.si...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've got a query about tasks and transactions on a High-replication app that
> I'm hoping someone can help me with.
> I've got the following scenario:
> 1) Begin a transaction
> 2) Persist an entity
> 3) Enqueue a task within the transaction
> 4) Commit the transaction
> Within the task, I get the entity via its key and I'm finding that the
> object has yet to be updated in the datastore - it was my belief that
> getting an entity via its key is strongly consistent, so I was quite
> surprised to see that the entity was stale.  Is this result expected?  I've
> got some defensive code in place now which just re-enqueues the task, but I
> wasn't sure whether that was the right approach.
> I originally had the same issue on the MS version of my app, before I
> realised that I needed to enqueue the task within the same transaction to
> ensure the persist had occurred before the task was run.
>
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